Word: crassness
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...success is explained not just by the crass style and posturing that marks a winning politician. Clinton has considerable substance as well. His ability to address a crowd with all the down-home furor of Tom Harkin's "Bullshit!" speechifying and yet all the technocratic details of Mike Dukakis' white papers make him not just a good policy driver but a good policy maker. Clearly, Clinton would be the best president...
Quite a few locals took pleasure in the rancorous rumors. For years Disney had been No. 1, but with a bullet of industry-wide resentments aimed at its heart. The studio's bosses were crass, they were meddlers, they were way too successful for way too long: Michael Milkens as movie moguls. Anticipating that Billy B. might be a Bonfire-size bomb, Hollywood went dancing at its favorite spot: on the coffin of a hated rival...
Where did the Arcadian side of Pop go? Down the memory hole, into the unrecoverable past, along with the America it represented. The crass, brash commercial imagery that the Pop artists seized on is still there, looming even larger than it did 30 years ago, but it no longer offers art the same possibilities. The optimism of '60s Pop makes it look more romantic than it used to. Having been propaganda for its own culture, some of it has turned into history painting of a quite poignant sort. Robert Rauschenberg's Retroactive II, 1964, with its spaceman and its young...
...time line on gay life in the U.S. in his Dave Brandstetter series. No current mystery writer has better exploited this potential -- or better served readers with riveting storytelling and acutely observed human nature -- than James McClure in his eight novels about two South African policemen. The cheerily crass Boer, Tromp Kramer, and his wily "kaffir" partner, Mickey Zondi, were introduced in The Steam Pig, published in 1971. Their teamwork, affectionate but circumscribed, full of macho blarney and teasing but also tinged with racial irony, subtly evoked the quirky diplomacy of a society where whites insist on ruling...
Yalman's use of the word "pansy" is tantamount to saying that an African-American is not an "Uncle Tom", or that a woman is not a "bitch." Maybe these crass analogies will convey to the professor, to his readers and to the editors who allowed his comments to be printed without note, the offensiveness of "pansy" to the gay community...